'Not in--' 'Not in your brother, my dear,' returned Miss La Creevy, anticipating the close of the sentence, 'for he is always the same affectionate good-natured clever creature, with a spice of the--I won't say who--in him when there's any occasion, that he was when I first knew you.

No.
Smike, as he WILL be called, poor fellow! for he won't hear of a MR before his name, is greatly altered, even in this short time.' 'How ?' asked Kate.

'Not in health ?' 'N--n--o; perhaps not in health exactly,' said Miss La Creevy, pausing to consider, 'although he is a worn and feeble creature, and has that in his face which it would wring my heart to see in yours.

No; not in health.' 'How then ?' 'I scarcely know,' said the miniature painter.

'But I have watched him, and he has brought the tears into my eyes many times.